[colug-432] TeX

[Steve VanSlyck]

forwarding a PDF to my Kindle address does not cause it to download to my Kindle

Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>Is this one of the first gen Kindles?  If it is second generation or
>later,
>you can indeed send PDF's to it:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200375630
>
>
>
>On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Steve VanSlyck
><s.vanslyck at spamcop.net>wrote:
>
>> yes I'm aware of that but it is not about creating a PDF but rather
>the
>> fact that I need to file in word so that it can be loaded into my
>Kindle
>> library.  I cannot send a PDF to my Kindle library and have it load
>in the
>> Kindle
>>
>>
>> Vince Herried <Vince at PlanetVince.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Kile a kde application creates pdf or ps files just fine.
>>> I'm using it at the moment for a course I'm taking.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Steve VanSlyck
><s.vanslyck at spamcop.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> also it's not possible to send a PDF to my Kindle I need to have it
>in
>>>> in the Kindle library in order to do that I need to send it to the
>Kindle
>>>> as it as a Word document
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Feb 22, 2014, at 9:48, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at spamcop.net>
>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Hey guys.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I have a TeX file. Goal is to convert it to Word (DOC or
>possibly DOCX)
>>>>>>  with all fonts embedded so I can send it to my Kindle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Is there anyone here who can do that for me? Much of the file is
>simple
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Times Roman (or some equivalent typeface) but there are some
>>>>>>  mathematical symbols and such.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  And if so, can you tell me what you'll need (if anything) apart
>from the
>>>>>>  TeX text file itself?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Disclaimer: I've worked very little with LaTeX documents.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems like a more direct conversion would be to PDF, which the
>Kindle supports easily.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not in front of a Linux box right now, but I can imagine with
>a fair degree of certai!
>>>>>  nty
>>>>> there is a tex2pdf or tex2ps converter in the repo of any major
>distro.  (ps2pdf would be the second step if going to postscript
>first).  This might help:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://tex2pdf.berlios.de
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sure there is a way to convert to Word but ... ugh. 
>Proprietary, closed format, but maybe worst is the strong possibility
>of massive document formatting loss, etc.  I say this from experience
>with MSWord conversion nonsense over the years, and having dealt with
>stupidness taking the same PowerPoint file between Windows and OSX just
>this week, and finding inexplicable formatting differences.
>>>>>
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